Machine for cutting fish



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ws. MOSES. MACHINE POR CUTTING HSE.

No. 356,725., Patented Jam. 25, 18s?.

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MACHINE FOR CUTTING FISH.

No. 356,725. Patented Jan. Z5, 1887.

WM M N. PEYERS.

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W. S. MOSES. MAGHNE FOR CUTTING FISH.

Patented Jan. 25, 1887.

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WALTER S. MOSES, OF ANNISQUAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACE-HNE FOR CUTTING FlSH.

SPECIFICATION iorming part of Letters Patent No. 356,725, dated January 25, 1887.

Application filed July 7, '1885. Serial No. 170,980. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, VALTER S. MOSES, a citizen of the United-States, residing at Annisquani, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Machines for Cutting Fish, of which the following` is a specification.

My improvement consists in machinery for cutting iish into rectangular pieces of equal size, to be piled one on another and so fastened together as to form rectangular blocks for packing solidlyT into boxes, for the better preservation of the iish and for greater facility in handling the saine by dealers, both wholesale and retail.

In the accompanying drawings, making part of this specication, Figure l is a perspective view of the iish-cntter. -Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the arrangement of the endless belt and the machinery operating it. Fig. 3 is a plan showing the knives and their attachments. Fig. i is a plan showing the other parts of the machine, the cutting devices being removed; and Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line .r fc, Fig. l.

Like letters in the different igu res represent the same parts.

Letter A is the frame of the machine.

H H are sections of an endless table, the ends of which sections are securely fastened to the endless chains B B, which chains are operated by a belt on the pulleys C, whose shaft carries the pinion D, gearing into the wheel E on the shaft F, carrying two pinions, one, G, geared into the rack D of the endless chain B, and the other pinion placed near the other end of said shalt and geared into the rack of another endless chain, like B, placed on the otherside ofthe machine, as shown in Fig. 5.

I I are grooves in the surfaces of the sections forming the endless table, in which run the edges of the rotary knives K K. L L are also grooves in the surfaces of said sections, in which are placed the free ends of the rods M M. N N are sinallgnietallie pins so inserted into the surface of said table that their points rise above its surface half an inch or more.

K K are rotary knives, each having a sepa` rate arbor. The arbors of the smaller knives run in bearings on the brackets 0 O, which are framed into the beam l?, and which beam is framed into the posts Q Q. The arbors of ets R R,inortised into the rocking shaft S, having gudgeons with bearings in said posts Q, Q. The lever T is also mortised into saidA rocking shaft S, and throws the larger knives into and out of cutting position, according as it is raised or depressed, and by suitable i'astenings holds themrinly in said positions, respectively.

U is a guide fastened to the rocking shaft V, which turns in the bearings W Qfastened to the frame A. The horizontal position of this guide is at right angles to the grooves I I.

To the end piece of the frame A are securely fastened slat-SXX, placed far enough apart to permit the rows of pins N N to pass between them, and made so thin that the points on said pins rise above the tops of said slats.

M M are rods serving to remove the cut fish from the pins N N. One end of each of said rods is hinged to the frame A, and the other is held in its corresponding groove, L, sunk in the surface of the endless table, and held in place by the spring Z.

Operation: The surface of the table moves toward the knives in the direction of the arrow shown in the drawings. If a dried ishis to be cut, the larger bones are taken out, the skin removed, and the sh placed lengthwise on the table, skin side down, and held in place by the pins N N. As the iish moves with the surface of the table under the knivesKK, said knives are rotated by the motion of the fish and out it into longitudinal strips, in width equal to the distance between the knives. As the longitudinal strips of fish pass on beyond the knives they are raised off-the pins by the rods M M coming between said strips and the surface of the endless table. A quantity of fish having been thus cut into longitudinal strips, the same is returned, by machinery or otherwise, to the front end of the machine, and the guide U is pnt in place, as shown in the drawings. Then the longitudinal strips of iish are placed with a cnt side against the guide U and so pressed down as to be fastened to the surface of the table by the pins N N. Being so placed, the cnt sides of the longitudinal strips approach the knives at right angles, and as they pass under the knives are of course cut into rectangular blocks.

Then it is desired to cut the sh into blocks IOC With a length double their width, the large knives are raised out of the cutting position by depressing the lever T.

The grooves in which run the edges of the rotating knives permit the cutting to bc done somewhat in the manner in which shears operate, whereby a clean square cut of the ish is effected.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a fish-cutting machine, the combination ofthe endless table consisting of the sections H, provided with the grooves I and pins N, the endless chains B B, carrying said table, and the rotary cutters K K, substantially as described.

2. In a sh-cutting machine, the rotary cutters K, i-n combination with the sectional table H, provided with the grooves I, to receive the edges of said cutters, and operated by the endless chains B B, substantially as described.

3. In a sh-cutting machine, the combination, with the frame A and the endless sec tional table H, of the posts Q Q, the beam P,

framed into said posts, the brackets O O, framed into said beam, the knives K, having bearings in said brackets,^the rock-shaft S, having bearings in the posts Q Q, the brackets R B, framed into said shaft, and the knives K, journaled into said brackets, substantially as described, and for t-he purposes set forth.

4. In a fish-cutting machine, the frame A, in combination with the endless sectional table provided with the grooves L, and the rods M, hinged to said frame and their free ends being held in the grooves L' by the springs Z, substantially as described.

5. In a ish-cntting machine, the guide U, hinged to the frame A, in combination with the sectional table and the slats X, fastened at one end to the frame A, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

WALTER S. MOSES.

Vitnesses:

S. O. SavILLn, E. J. BUNNELL. 

